Rock Camp for Girls Appalachia Now Forming!

Rock Camp for Girls Appalachia (RCGA) is an emerging music camp for girls and young women ages 8 to 18 in Lincoln County, West Virginia. Set to take place in early June of 2010, the RCGA will bring 20 girls together from the southern part of the state for an amazing week-long adventure at the Big Ugly Community Center in Harts (about 45 minutes away from Charleston). Participants will spend their days receiving instrument instruction, forming bands, and attending empowerment and DIY workshops. There will be public performances at the end of the week in both Big Ugly and Charleston. And best of all, it will be free of charge!

Why a girls only camp? Because girls and young women need a safe space to learn about themselves, their abilities, and their potential. They need a place where they can discover for themselves who they truly are, away from external powers like mass media and peer pressure...which focus on what girls should be and not what they could be. RCGA uses music as a medium to empower young women so that they can grow up to be self-confident women of the future. Oh yeah...and we always want to see more women rock!


Rock Camp for Girls will be held at the Big Ugly Community Center two months ahead of the annual two-week Appalachian Music Camp in August.